Peter Bresnan

What's more "American" than the right to protest? : It's Been a Minute Last weekend, former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by federal immigration authorities. The move was an escalation in the Trump administration's crackdown on dissent, and it h...

www.npr.org/2025/03/14/1...

14.03.2025 14:19 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published

I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

26.02.2025 15:28 — 👍 8868    🔁 2120    💬 695    📌 440

There are a lot of good journalists at the post who do not deserve the outright vandalism their bosses are committing to a great paper.

26.02.2025 15:13 — 👍 1008    🔁 131    💬 30    📌 9

Ambies nomination for podcast of the year

Ambies nomination for Best reporting

Ambies nomination for Best History Podcast

I’m thrilled and grateful to share that Empire City is nominated for the Ambie awards for: Best history podcast, Best Reporting, and Podcast of the year! My incredible team worked to bring us the history we need to create the future we absolutely must fight for. Energy up for more good news.

16.02.2025 03:19 — 👍 95    🔁 8    💬 5    📌 3

Low on the list but it sucks so tremendously bad that everyone has to say “DOGE" all the time

06.02.2025 20:45 — 👍 1691    🔁 136    💬 119    📌 29

The NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them The department has killed more than 400 cases of alleged misconduct this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated. It’s part of a lax attitude toward discipline under the curren...

1) Here’s a small sampling of what the NYPD has been up to and or what we’ve learned about the NYPD just in the last five months since Empire City came out:

1) September 11, 2024
NYPD Buried Hundreds of Misconduct Cases"
www.propublica.org/article/nypd...

27.01.2025 01:35 — 👍 764    🔁 325    💬 32    📌 17

A black and brown tabby cat named Moose naps on top of a blue couch cushion.

moose says happy new year, especially to the haters

31.12.2024 21:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it was such a delight working on this piece with @laurameckler.bsky.social!

24.12.2024 02:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

insane!

14.12.2024 01:59 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

one could say that, yes

08.12.2024 01:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

but am i wrong

07.12.2024 23:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

it’s one of the best games i’ve played this year. like if Hollow Knight and Sekiro had a baby

03.12.2024 23:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Revenge, fire and destruction: A year of Israeli soldiers’ videos from Gaza The Post verified more than 120 photos and videos of the war in Gaza - providing an uncensored view of one of the most deadly and destructive wars in this century.

some extraordinary work from some of my colleagues that really speaks for itself: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

03.12.2024 17:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

watching the sopranos for the first time and im having impure thoughts about paulie “walnuts” gualtieri

24.11.2024 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.

15.11.2024 23:54 — 👍 33021    🔁 7678    💬 1183    📌 415

I still believe in the value of journalism. But it's hard some days not to notice that we spend all day writing stories meant to hold powerful people to account, yet those powerful people rarely seem to get held to account and in fact only grow stronger while we grow weaker and less relevant.

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